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title: It was some fifty versts long, whereas if it had been made in a stra… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was some fifty versts long, whereas if it had been made in a straight line it would not have been more than five. Who acts: town. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 79

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It was some fifty versts long, whereas if it had been made in a straight line it would not have been more than five.

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**Who acts:** town · **What happens:** be, wherea, make, not be · **To what, where:** town, straight line, five

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:52:79
# text = It was some fifty versts long, whereas if it had been made in a straight line it would not have been more than five.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	versts	verst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	whereas	wherea	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	25	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | town |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wherea** | present | town *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | town |  | a straight line |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | infinitive · perfect |  | five |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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